It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

My mom is definitely my rock.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.