I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.