“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

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.

Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Your body will never be familiar.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.

It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

There is no me without you! Losing you was the catalyst for everything.

Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

If I’m not the love of your life I’ll be your greatest loss instead.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.