“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”

“Don't carry a grudge; while you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.”

“Lord, let me write,leave me autistic and typinguntil my windows bust into a thousand silver dovesand I know the poem is done.”

“If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.”

“Tell me my heart beats a war drumthat my eyes are not just armiesbut my spineis a harpoon.”

“Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it’s my second time to fail anger management class.”