You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not           harmless. You are not                     breathing.

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.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing!

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Catch me if you can -A