the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

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.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.