. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.

And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.- Seamus Tierney

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

Faith is a gift of God.

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.

Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.