Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

Silence is the fruit of occupation.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.