Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

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.

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?