Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.

Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

Even the top motivational speakers and inspirational writers are constantly reading books from other self-improvement people, because they truly understand that knowledge has no limit to it.

It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.

Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.