When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

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 had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.