In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge.

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.