From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

I have three closets in my bedroom.

Lipgloss is my calling!

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

When you get to sing with someone you care about, it's magical.

I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.

A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata,

He robbed a bank in Wichita.

It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence.

Maelcum a rude boy," said the other, "an' a righteous tug pilot.

And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others