Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

My only hope was to be polite.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?