It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends.
It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem; I whisper with my lips close to your ear, I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
When I was your age, television was called books.
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.