We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world

And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.