Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.