I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.