We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.