Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.