nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.