"We’re afraid of saying the word “suicide” and talking about it. Certainly the word suicide has a kind of energy that …"

"All through my childhood, I wanted to be a novelist. I stopped writing at various points because I would get frustrat…"

"As a writer you wait around for inspiration; this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the sh…"

"I lived most of my life feeling like an outsider. I remember in second grade being bullied, taunted and beaten up. I …"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"