There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.

I am not obsessing.I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.

People have done this before, but not us.

If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

People won't change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.

If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words ‘I can’ and ‘I believe’ played a very vital role in their fame.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

I don't take advances for my books.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...

The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.