Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn

Don't feel moments in a life, feel lives in a moment

What did one say to a stalker? Um, pardon me, Mr.Stalker, but could you, like, not?

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.