Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.