One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

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.

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Philosophy is for the few.