“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Life is the most brutal endurance sport of all time.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Only doubtful truths need defense.

Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.