At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

I never liked group work in school.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

If you must be without one, be without the strategy.