... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

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.

Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.