"In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive."
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"In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive."
"So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again?And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time."
"This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder"
"For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have."
"He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!"
"I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things."
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."
"A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal."
"But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves."
"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."
"I'm not into this whole move with the times thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it."
"Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins."
"Those who don't jump will never fly."
"Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back."
"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."
"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."
"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."
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