My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.

They’ve been practicing racism so long, it’s perfect.

My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who’d win the fight; me or god

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we’d fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a...

I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me.

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

Too bad children don’t know how profound their thoughts are.

Home is where you were conditioned.

Even the Us’s are Them’s.

What you don’t think about when you’re planning for children is when you’re going to teach them how not to be killed

The world is full of ‘friends’ of suicide victims thinking ‘if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It’s night that’s the hardest to live.

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

She said before i could touch her walls I’d have to touch her heart. so i did.

i didn’t call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don’t move.

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

It’s okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we’ve labeled and drugged them.

New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we’re watching.

It’s crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I’ve done nothing.

The saddest thing about death, whether it’s our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn’t stop when we do.

Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they’ve been confessing shit all their life.

How long should two people wait for sex? Until there is no other option when looking at one another.

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.

Communities that can’t read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

Not everything set on fire will rise.

If you weren’t built for this life, you’d be dead by now. i think the problem is people don’t share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in...

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.

I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn’t it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it’s given away. It can always be beautified.

Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

If you’re not seeing God at the climax, it’s not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.

There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you’re trying to escape.

We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren’t sure if we were in love anymore.

Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.

And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is...

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.