If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.