Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.