Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.

Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.

Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder?

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer, ' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.

You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry.You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged.You learn the value of water when the fields are bare.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

Out here, it's just you and the ball.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.