I've triedto become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Pretty women with no soul like paintings on the wall

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

You’re not really grown until you’ve lost your heroes.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?