Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.

If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.

I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

To believe in moments makes life endless, no?

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

People are busy creating families, building businesses, working from morning until night but they don’t know what it is to live a full life

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

As far as we know, everyone’s right— Strigoi don’t want to hang out in Palm Springs.” Eddie became about one percent less tense.

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.