I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

You need a danger to be safe in.

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.It is beautiful that they have to disappear.It's like the time you said I love you madly.That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.

Every citizen must pray for its nation.

Nothing changes and everything does.

People are stupid, because of watching the same over and over and over and over - which goes as far as I can tell hell.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

When I was younger, I was like full eyeliner, tons of mascara, blush, and a red lip thinking, Oh, this is sexy. And now I think natural is better.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.