Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

The game is in a neutral country for both teams.

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.