Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

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.

I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.

Faith walks simply childlike between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

I try to collect money and I keep it in a special place called the bank. I collect a bunch of things called money, dollar bills, and I keep them in a safe under my bed.

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.

I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp.