It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

The difference between a truth and a lie is determined when one chose to accept the other.

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.