Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.

Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

When you are beloved and express gratitude like the fragrance of a beautiful flower, you are happy.

Love is easy early on...it's when feelings ebb and flow and the busyness of life creeps in that real love shines through in small conscious choices.

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.