One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.