Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.

Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.

Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widowed me and murdered me and resurrected me whole a thousand times over with each hour.

No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

People's fates are simplified by their names.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

My statements are just a statement of fact.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.