The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.

Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.

Enjoy the ecstasy of daily dance.

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.