if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

Fire on anything that moves on the river.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.