Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

I don’t need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?” “Hardly, ” Talia scoffed. “This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.

Let us see God before man every day.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.