If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

I love to talk to people who love to talk. The warmth, the energy, the humanity.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

If I'm drinking I can either be the nicest guy ever or I'm the guy you should leave alone.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

A lot of times it seems like, you ain't gon' make it where you wanna be in life. But, yo if you got a plan, believe me you gon' get there. You gon' get everything you ever wanted

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!