O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

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

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Victory stands on the back of sacrifice

For success, optimism is more important than opportunity.

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.