You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

You can go out and hate everybody, hate your age, and hate all the things you don't have but it will show; you have the face you deserve.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.