"Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well."

“Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.”

Source : "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

“I never think of myself as different from anyone else.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.”

“I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

“For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.”

“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”

“If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.”

“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr