Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.