People can't stand to be alone with themselves, so they bother me when I'm trying to be alone with myself.

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?

It pains me to have all this knowledge and no one to share it with, I’d have to say its number 3 on my list. – Of what causes me the most pain.

Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living.

A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.

I could’ve quit long ago, but there wouldn’t be nothing to quit to, unless I was ready to commit suicide.

Don’t be like everyone else and pawn your dreams for pennies, because they’ll never give you what it’s truly worth.

I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.

The worst pain I had to face is the fight with myself. I'm unsure who to rout for, because they both want what’s best for me.

Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

Who cares if no one likes me? one day i will become rich and you will want me then.

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.