If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.