That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But that’s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.