When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.

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.

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

Once you've done that, push the thought of no thought away.

The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants.

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.