The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

There's a whole world all around more interesting, wonderful, terrifying, mysterious, amazing than any novel ever written. Pay attention. Take a chance. Dare life.

The stars are dead, but their memories fill the sky

You can’t afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.