I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

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.

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.

If God exists, Id be the first to be told.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.