Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

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

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.