“There is much love in the world for those that claim their dreams.”

“The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...”

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of the claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

“Love is like a portable lamp/sex toy. The world calls those flashlights, but I’m much more romantic.”

“when I was a boy I used to dream of becomingthe village idiot.I used to lie in bed and imagine myself thehappy idiotable to get food easily...and easy sympathy,a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.some would claim that I have succeeded.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.”