Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

The heart is the window to the soul, the portal through which we can understand the desires of the spirit.

Compassion brings people together.

I can Be what I WILL to Be. Find A Way~ Make it Happen!

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.