I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

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.

To stand on a mountain top, you must first create the mountain.

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization

I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.