What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdemtu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atuncieu sunt euşi tu eşti tu.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

My faith gives me the ability to say, whatever is next, I'm ready. If it is Hillary or Trump I am ready because they might sit on the desk but they do not sit on the throne.

Behind your skin, your bones, your heart and your mind, you are simply a mirror of the universe, all of its history and its future in a single breath.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.