Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

May my silences become more accurate.

The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.