Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The greatest thing in the world is not in dying rich but leaving the richness behind for the world to treasure.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Man is not mind, he is soul.