“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

Love is the only engine of survival.

We’ve got to learn to love appearances.

I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.

When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

The more knowledge you have, the more you’re free to rely on your instincts.

When your why is big enough you will find your how.

I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Innovation comes in many ways.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.