And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

Strive to be the very best at whatever you undertake in life.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.

Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.