Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world….

My hatred gives me strength..

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a ….

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be..

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody be….

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes ….

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never….

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it..

A fish has no concept of water..

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape..

It's such a liability to love another person..

It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived..

Who can judge another man's suffering?.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention..

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space..

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal..

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away..

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare..

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back..

They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it aw….

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have..