... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

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.

Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right and because you stand out doesn't make it wrong. Just find a path that you can defend.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.