I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.

It's really simple: Try to make people happy.

Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.