Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

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.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Can you really talk to the dead?" She gave me the look that I was familiar with by now: equal parts derision, skepticism, and curiosity. “How much would it be? I mean, how much do you charge?

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.