Emotions are the curse of logic.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life.

Your unconscious mind is trying to figure out how to talk to your conscious.

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks

ALL LOSSES IN THIS WORLD ARE DUE TO A LACK OF ABILITY. IF YOU WANT TO CURSE SOMETHING, CURSE YOUR OWN WEAKNESS

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.