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“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”
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“I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.”
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“Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.”
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“Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.”
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“You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.”
Source : National Day Rally, 2006.
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“The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.”
Source : "Iraqi Kurds Hope Vote Legitimizes Leadership". Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 1992.
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“Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl”
Source : Song: The Pearl Live, Album: Red Dirt Girl, 2000
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“Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.”
Source : Thomas Malory (2009). “Le MORTE DARTHUR: the Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 1 Of 4]”, p.93, Lulu.com