Johnny Rich

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

Wouldn__ a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

Silent is an anagram of listen.

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

These are the things you don__ say, even to someone you love.

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love