We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

I want nothing from You but to see You.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.