The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

The true enemy of man is generalization.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

I owe my career to Paul Heyman.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn