Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.

Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

You’ve stopped crying. I’m glad. I don’t want you to cry anymore.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.