“Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.”

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.

I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.

We are ugly but we have the music.

I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

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

Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.

I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

Do not be a magician – be magic!

He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.

Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.

We have a good time together, even when we’re not together.

My dogs are there to teach me to take a break. They’re there to remind me that there’s more to life than work.

Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country. ⁣