Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

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.

Your moral values & ability to rationalize

Thoughts don't become things

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

An eternity is any moment opened with patience.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. So that meant holidays, weekends, nights.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.