On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room.

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

It was some of Solomon’s favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn’t expected to dance to it.

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

He almost blacks out again, but he’s not sure if it’s the stroke or the thrust gravity. He’s pretty sure driving blood pressure higher while having a stroke is considered poor form.

and rain will fall on our eaves.

Successful people breed success.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."

Congratulations on passing your test! Your HIV positive.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.