Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

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.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Who will be my equal?

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

I've always loved to sing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.