“A poet could kill the dead.”

“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”

“In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.”

“My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.”

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

“Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.”