“If God's masons built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to destroy them. But instead of walls all I see is backdrops, sets. And sets are made to be destroyed.”

“He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.”

“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”

“...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...”

“Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.”

“Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.”