We laugh & it pits the world against us.

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.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Genius is infinite painstaking.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.