Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

A poet could kill the dead.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?