Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil

In truth, I doubt I'd notice if a herd of giant Irish elk stomped through the entire chamber when I'm in the act of lovin' you, Lainna!

What else other than success can happen to anyone who refuses to stay down in the midst of any struggle, challenge or obstacle?

Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.