As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

I move in the university of the waves.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.