"People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness."

“I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.”

“Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.”

“For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.”

“I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

“In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.”

“I am stronger than my trials.”

Source : Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

“The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.”

“How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!”

Source : Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.5