I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

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.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

If we continuously protest and complain about our life then we actually create barriers in the manifestation process and the natural flow of life.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

American workers are first rate.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

If the foundation of faith is not embedded in our hearts, the power to endure will crumble.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

I would say my work is anti-ironic.