I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

By letting go we become free to accept what is new.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

To a young heart everything is fun.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.

One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.

I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.