In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.