Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

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.

Over the boundary of time, Hope transcends, Desire sings, One verse, One song, And that is the song of happiness.

Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

We exist within the question of God.