“when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.”

“(About "Black Debt" by Steve McCaffery)'Impersonal' as this text is, it is by no means unemotional or uninvolved. We learn nothing-- at least nothing direct-- about McCaffery's (or his narrator's) personal life, his opinions or ruminations. Nonetheless I would posit that 'Lag' projects a highly particularized way of looking at things, of processing the most diversified information fields-- geology and genetics, archeology and advertising, classics and commercials-- that is finally recognizable in its particular ways of negotiating with language as is the more personal lyric consciousness we expect to find in poetry.”

“Sometimes God wants you to withstand the fire, not just the pouring rain that people put on you. Life is about makeing it through the fire with God, not without him.”

“By the time I realized I even had a heart at all, it already belonged to you.”

“Love is like a battlefield. You have to have a war every once in a while, to survive life”

“Another woman you slept with by any chance?' Crystal muttered.'No, she has her clothes on," Blaze replied.”

“If it's easy you're not in love”