“Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.”

“It is still beautiful to hear the heart beatbut often the shadow seems more real than the body.”

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

“The decision is mine, and I choose happiness”

“...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.”

“Stand firm as surefooted as deer.”

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”