We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

A poet could kill the dead.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

The best part of life is when you are 'YOU' without any mental or psychological make-up.

To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

The Lord Protector and his hair got off the elevator.

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.

I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.