I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.

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.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.

Christ has no place in the life that is not dominated by the Word. - T.B. Joshua