“War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.”

“Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.”

“She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.”

“If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.”

“I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.”

“There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather. There is a man with wings like a bird.. there is a man who can sea across the planet and wring diamonds from its anthracite. There is a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues..In the house above the world the over-people gather..To a fry, mad voice that whispers of earthdeath.”

“Can't have it" from Goodfellas”