“My emotions were like a crowd. Give em what they want. Barabbas or the J-man. Theres gonna be a crucifixion. Well, more or less. Because if you ask me, purveyor of useless facts, the promise of sex...”

“How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How man...”

“I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.”

“Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.”

“Yellowdog, where does sorrow go?He held his heart. Lives here, in each of us.”

“Dont focus on outward means of satisfaction if you want to be happy.”

“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.”

“Nothing satisfy the soul than the Truth.”

“All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of...”