At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are
I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty. . . . [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Souls are not saved in bundles.
I don't know if you've ever been shoved into the bow of a nutshell pram, a boat that is very easily almost liftable with one hand, and quite tippy, and is being piloted by a 12-year-old, but it is the true feeling of having your life in someone else's hands, and it's very precarious.
Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.