Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the myste….

He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderf….

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is..

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've do….

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job..

I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because….

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft r….

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, f….

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,….

We're frightened of what makes us different..

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other..

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless..

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose..

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the l….

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sens….

Get thee behind me, tragedy..

Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable cha….

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us..

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt..

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice..

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..