“The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.”

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

I ache in the places where I used to play.

It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

Then let’s be quiet together.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?

Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.

The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.

Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

I have tried in my way to be free.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.