We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

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.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.

No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.