I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

Communication with God should not be a one-way traffic.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.