“I don't even hate books anymore.”

“Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”

“I don't rememberlighting this cigaretteand I don't rememberif I'm here aloneor waiting for someone.”

“I don't want to be a star, merely dying.”

“Undertow""I set out one nightWhen the tide was lowThere were signs in the skyBut I did not knowI'd be caught in the gripOf the undertowDitched on a beachWhere the sea hates to goWith a child in my armsAnd a chill in my soulAnd my heart the shapeOf a begging bowl”

“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.”

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”