The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

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.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Most of my influences are from the past.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.