“You were. You areThe brightest thing in the shop windowAnd the most beautiful seldom I ever saw”

“T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.”

“I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.”

“What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth”

“Mikhal - "...most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you”

“Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop?”

“I was raised to assume that wealth and rank and privilege would be mine by right," he said painfully. "Through a combination of bad luck and bad judgment, most of those assumptions were beaten out of me. While other young gentlemen raced horses and chased opera dancers, I learned that the world grants no rights beyond the chance to struggle for survival." His mouth twisted. "In the army I was flogged, wore rags, and damned near starved to death. I was forced to face every flaw and weakness in myself, and to learn the harsh lesson that men born to whores and raised in the gutter could be stronger, braver, and more honorable than I”