“Without literature, life is hell.”

Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.

We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.

Baddest bitch with a degree.