“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”

“The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.”

“Only poetry isn't shit.”

“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”

“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”

“I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.”

“This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it's incomplete, because stories like this don't have an ending.”