“It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.”

“We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.”

“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”

“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.”

“...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.”

“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”

“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.”