The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

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.

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

You realize in life, not that many things matter that much, but your choice of a spouse is everything.

Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

If you do not like an idea, challenge it with a better one!

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

Life is too short for non-WOW projects.