It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.

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.

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The best live among us in disguise.

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.