A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

To love is to undress our names.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?