You can't just make me different and then leave

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.