I’ve got to live up to their expectations by acting irresponsibly again. - Lisa Goldstein

She sat silent for a moment. The real world always lay out there waiting, ready to ambush you with something you could not control. The history you’ve made up for your own private kingdom turns out to be the national epic of some obscure country.

You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes courage to live.

Claude sighed. “All right, you’re a poet,” he said. “I don’t understand why poets can’t make the effort to get along like everyone else.”
“Ah,” Robert said. “But we poets can’t understand why everyone else is making the effort.”