I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

There is no music, just the sound of the wind and the leaves it touches. But hopefully that'll be music enough, for you.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

Flexible approach - will look at ALL asset classes.