I’m the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don’t blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.
Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.
No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.
The arts are obsessional, and obsession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases—Dylan Thomas comes to mind, and Ross Lockridge and Hart Crane and Sylvia Plath—the knife can turn sav...
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if so...
This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root-canal at a time; boat-builders go on one hull at a time. If you write boo...
We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have...
When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to d...
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to th...
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.
You think , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thin...
A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
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