Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)

Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.