There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

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.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.