The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Do something you love and people will love you for it.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.