Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Only God gets things right the first time.