I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

We say to others only what we need to hear

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)