Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

Life is gracious sacred-breathe.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.