Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

Our faith can stand up to any question, but sometimes people ask questions—and keep asking questions—just to avoid facing their own spiritual needs and acknowledging who Jesus really is.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.