Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.

We are all innocent aged kids.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

She exists, Damon. There are women out there who crave what we can give them. Once you taste it, you can't ever let go of it.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.