His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.