In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.