“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.”
“My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!”
“April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.”
“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.”
“Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.”
“A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.”
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
“If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.”
“Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.”
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”