You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.

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.

A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.

Bless someone today, other than yourself

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines because that's the way I am.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.