The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.