Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.

As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.