In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

A poet could kill the dead.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

Smiling is one of your most powerful non-verbal behaviors. People do read a book by its cover and these expressions provide glimpses into what they will find inside.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.