No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.

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.

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.