There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.