You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.