If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

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.

I want a man with nuclear power.

You have to be mentally prepared to handle any situation.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.