Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.

There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

There are many men but rare fathers

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.