Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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.

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 am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Making you happy isn't making me happy.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.