“We are cruel enough without meaning to be.”

“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.”

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”

“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

“It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.”

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. ”