I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.

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.

The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

God made us to consume food. He did not make food to consume us.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.