In love there is no because.

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.

Abolish these categories of pain(or is it love)Let it all be one painPain swallows itself, dies like a star.

Feeling awful is physiological you say.God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

And maybe you can’t know me now.   Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

Your powers of observation are formidable, " Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?