Human sympathy has its limits.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

No one should live beyond 30.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.