The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.