Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

. Being able to say, “No,” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done