And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.