Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t matter.

Hatred imprisons the haters

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.