Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.

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.

Banyak orang berkata jika rindu itu pahit, aku curiga mereka menyimpan rindu di empedu bukan dihati.

...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.