I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

Nobody in love has a sense of humor.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.