The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.

It’s not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else’s story.

What we invent, we become

It’s incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.

Cynicism-the pus from a wound.

The pieces of a puzzle aren’t together or apart.

Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.

Professors stare down from their podiums; that’s their insecurity.

It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.

Art is an extension of friendship, a reaching out to the world.

When an artist finds, he finds without looking for it.

You don’t have to have a dream for it to come true.

They’ll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out.

The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

Why do people value most the things they haven’t got?

A writer’s courage: to leave a blank page blank.

Ambition is the death of joy.

What good is a song that doesn’t break your heart?

Moths don’t need to explain why their attracted to the light.

The kind-hearted won’t inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live.

Look up at the moon; don’t think about yourself.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

The law is that the law will be broken.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

Facts are only facts until something better comes along.

Time can’t be found, only lost.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

Where the truth is censored, the truth grows claws.

All poets are religious poets.

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

Art appears when the artist disappears.

We are alive and in the world and that is beautiful and everything.

We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.

The sea answers only to the sea.

There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.

Humanity’s favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn’t know.

What one does is always worth more than words.

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

The artist’s duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

Is hell the way to heaven? I think it’s the way to hell.

Hate’s ultimate victory is to make us dependent on it.

The memories we’re fondest of are not always our own

Home’s a place to come back to, not a place to stay.

To be fulfilled and happy it is enough simply to exist.

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.