Lava bread makes you passionate.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

It’s a gift. (Artemis) Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.