The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

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.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

A good man never fights with a woman.

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

I will not let anyone into America that I think poses a risk to us.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.