Skinny Legs and All

"Not naive," Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear."

...she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it — which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists."

A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

"Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark"

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

"keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball."