“Reach beyond the stars; read between the stripes.”
“Her life was as finite as the earth, but her love reaches beyond the stars.”
“In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.”
“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”
“Reach for the Stars!”
“But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the strongest element of desire is longing. It's in the work. Desider-, sidus: from the stars. The longing that reaches beyond space and time.”