Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

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.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

God is like a search engine — He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.