Our fatal mistake is waiting to be motivated before we take action. Action motivates.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.