I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

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 war for peace can destroy the whole world.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

Words are just words

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .