You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.