“Try not to kill me with your love,try not to break a glass wallseeing everything,but going unheard,the words feel unspoken.Crystals gleaming at our feet,innocently joined by red fistsand a kiss.”

“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for nightWithout me you’d be blindYou take me for granted every timeBut now you can’t see you set a sparkI come alive and rid out the dark Now you see in the light useless toolBut go where you can’t see and you’re the foolpoem i wrote”

“That’s why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.”

“We didn't run through fields of flowers, hand in hand. No music played when we kissed. No house landed on my mother. I didn't let go of everything all at once and become some bright and shining example to prove all it takes is a knight with a hammer to break the glass tower. Life doesn't that way. We tried, though, as we still try, every day, to make this work. To be honest and faithful to each other. To listen. To look ahead of things that lie before us instead of always staring behind at what we've left behind.I don't know what the future brings. All I know with utter certainty is this. Dan tamed me. We need each other.”

“If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.”

“Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.”

“Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.”