I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.