“The moon can only shine as bright as the stars around it”

“We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.”

“Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.”

“...the only light in this tiny-mooned night comes from the windows of the apartment building, a matching purple halo from each window, a dozen televisions all tuned to the pointless, empty, idiotic unreality o the same reality show, everyone watching in vacuous lockstep as true reality cruises slowly past outside licking its chops”

“You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.”

“A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.”

“Except the Christ be born again tonightIn dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,The world will never see his kingdom bright.”