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 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.

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.

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine.I Am Mine

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

I did find my direction at an early age.

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.