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

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life

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 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.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

A reminder that you don’t owe anyone any part of you.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.

Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.