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

“As a child my family'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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”