The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.