Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

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.

Our parting was like a stalemate….Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.