I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive.

One major factor that will prevent your dreams from becoming nightmares is learning to vacate your spectators’ seat and then taking steps towards the players' bench! You've got to play to win!

If you can't hold your drink, don't

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.