Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

How can you find your soul, if you please every soul?

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.

Moonlight is sculpture

First, be ruthless about your calendar—stick to it, hell or high water but create space for unstructured time as well.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

death was the price of life.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.