When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

It's funny, these days, if you want money, you can create an App or some kind of tech thing and make a billion dollars.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

No one can steal our dream.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.

Only the insecure strive for security.