Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.