You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.