Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.