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"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

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“I’m not much like myself any more.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

— John Wooden

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“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

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Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

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“I hope you get where you’re going, and be happy when you do it.”

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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"The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Milan Kundera (translated by Michael Henry Heim)

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“You do not need another heart to make yours beat, despite popular misconception.”

— Ian S. Thomas

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Devin Kelly, from “All That Wanting, Right?”

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“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

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“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”

— Franz Kafka

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“Loving someone means taking the risk that they might f*ck up your nicely ordered little life.”

— Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

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Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

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Alex Dimitrov, from "Waiting at Stonewall", Love and Other Poems

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley, from Collected Poems; “Three Secret Poems,”

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"The Curve of Your Eyes", Paul Éluard (translation by John Lyons)

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—Virginia Woolf