The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

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.

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

Do you ever feel like you've been waiting your entire life for a specific moment when it'll all make sense?

We ought to give each other, a chance to change.

In order to put an end to our conflicts

Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.