Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

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.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live".

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.