Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.

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.

Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another.

But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

America is laughing her way to Hell.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.