We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.

The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.

That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.