You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese