“They carved your name into the stone and thenthey put it in the ground,I run my fingers through the groovesWhen no one's around”

“I'm tired of living here in this hotel, snow and rain falling through the sheets. In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street, strung out like some Christmas lights out there in the Chelsea night”

“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.”

“I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.”

“While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.”

“I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.”

“I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!”