Why does everything always feel worse at night?

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

Writing time has to be created.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.

Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

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 can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.