A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

A poet could kill the dead.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

Asher, " she begged.His lips brushed her ear before he nipped the lobe. "I have a fever. It's for you, a ghràidh.""You make me burn.""Then we'll burn together.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.

I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Immigration has been [Donald] Trump's signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.