He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

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.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.