“For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.”

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.”

“It never became so dark in the room in Claremont; some light, inquisitive and worldly, always entered through the curtains”

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

“But my heart is not weary; it's light and it's free
I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me.”

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”

“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”

“… and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.”

“There are no stars to-night
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain.”