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.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Upward, not Northward

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.