Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught

It's her black wings that make her beautiful.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.