There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.