I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

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.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.

Beauty is found in the way you treat others.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.