All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
It is the tale, not he who tells it.
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can’t make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.
Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.
To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don’t even think about money.
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
You’ve got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Just remember that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who’s talented and someone that’s not.
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren’t prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
I can’t see the future, but it’s grim. The depletion of resources – we’re living in this dine-and-dash economy.
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.