“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”

“There has been a lot of speculation, and I believe there will continue to be a lot of speculation until the speculation ends,”

” If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix…”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”

“I remember there was actually a sexual thrill . . . you hear that little pop and pull their heads of and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That’d get me off.”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”

“A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.”

“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”