In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos. - Muzwot

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.