Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.

You are corrupting me, Theo. But you like being corrupted, don't you, sweet girl?

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

We are all incredibly different and rather than being something to be ashamed of, that's something to really celebrate.

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.