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

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.

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.

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

Your skill is the artistry you bring to your world, put out awe inspiring work.

When you deprive yourself of happiness, you deprive yourself your sense of being.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.