We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.

A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

I see consensual S&M no differently than I see consensual anything: as beautiful, and never any one thing.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.