I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

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.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.