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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are people in my life who count more than playing soccer in Serie A

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.