“Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”

Religion is the opium of the poor.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Never confuse movement with action.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.

Aren’t all poets born from tragedy?

To be man’s tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Between holding on and letting go october discerns october knows, that life lurks between the clouds of death and death breathes with every rebirth.

Even when the blood in my veins is the same as them, every cell in my body is against becoming like them. What a curse it is to hate the very thing that birth you.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

I have a relative who is also gay. We can’t help it if they were born that way.