We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

Ah, grief makes us precise!

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.