“Music is poetry with personality.”

“people often brag about the sacrifices they make in life but forget that there is someone somewhere who has sacrificed more then them”

“Roses are red violets are blue, God made me pretty, what happened to you?”

“Hey, Ma, your bad boy done it!”

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.”

“The next person who tells me something like, "Squiggle-fuck the rightwise cock-swatter with a starboard jib," is going to get a knife to the throat.”

“If I'm not learning, check my pulse!”