No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.