My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself.
A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.
Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.
Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.
My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.
My body is no schoolboy.
I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.
Maybe that’s what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.
Hell’s Bells ringing, my secret music...
You think I live in the past. You don’t understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can.
My life’s been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I’ve done everything in the name of defiance.
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that’s the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.
Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.
When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.