It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Potential has a shelf life.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

There is never only one, of anyone

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

The earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord

I'd love to promise a lifetime to you. I just don't have one to give.

Create your legacy by fulfilling your potential...

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do