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

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.

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

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

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.

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.