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 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.

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.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

If your prayers are not fertile, what are they? How do you make the Buddy System feminine? Pink is feminine.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done