I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

We were just looking at maps...

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

The Democrat Party is a shrinking and dwindling hate group. That's literally what they've become.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.