It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love, Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peaceto all those around meand all those in my thoughtsthis day and ever more.

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

I don't accept the term 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.