“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”
“Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.”
“I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating.”
“My skull is soundproof. And thank God too, or else you’d be able to hear all the horrible things I’m thinking about you. ”
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”