Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.