One should read Borges more.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

I always start a painting with the sky.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.

Try and stay away from dairy - especially if you're a woman! It's really hard on your hormones.

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.