Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

Guard your heart against anger.

Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.