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.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.