“To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.”

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

“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.”

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

“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.”

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