So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.

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.

P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

The greatest player in the world. He's got a fantastic vision of the game, and what he can do technically - it's crazy.

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.