Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

Memory is dynamic, it's alive.

If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.

There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak!

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.