oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.