"Language is the only skin left to strip.”

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

"Every room is a poem if you walk into it right.”

"You have to accept the fact that life is not perfect. You have to be willing to hurt in order to live.”

"Language is a virus from outer space."

“I am a man of stained glass, and every piece is cracked.”

“I was born poor, fled from my Colorado town because I was poor, hoping to write a book to get rich.”