My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food, ' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

All love is sweet, given or received.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that's the hardest.