“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.”

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

Love is the only engine of survival.

We’ve got to learn to love appearances.

I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.

When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.

Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.

If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.

He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.

I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

Live on the edge. I’m only free because I’m not afraid. Everything I was afraid of already happened to me.

Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.