I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

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.

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

And this I hate - not men nor flag nor race But only War with its wild grinning face.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

Let Nature be your teacher