Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.

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.

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.

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

Begin to read, write and think.

Giving back with love is our duty.

Man is a problem-creating animal.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.