To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

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.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

This woman could make a saint sin.

What is Hell like?" I blurted out before I could stop myself. Damn my curiosity. "You've never been there?" He eyed me suspiciously. Yeah, I went to Hell every summer for vacation.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.