“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.”

“Unreality cooled reality’s burn.”

“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”

“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.”

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

“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.”