There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.