So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

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

A poet could kill the dead.

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

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?

Do you find this...distracting?

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.