Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who've been hurt the most

I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.