Happier than a bird with a french fry.

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

You're too young to be so old.

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?” Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.“More like frenemies with benefits.

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie.""Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

With great vision, strong determination, and persistent action, everyone is capable of achieving greatness.

Love is as clear as water from a pitcher.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.