"If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’."
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"My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities."
"Let the ruins come to lifeIn the beauty of Your nameRising up from the ashesGod forever You reign"
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."
"Trance & Instinct The best poems come from trance and instinct;transcribing the unedited voice of universal consciousness."
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
"A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love."
"To enlighten your life, see beauty."
"Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads."
"I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again."
"Her and I, we passed each other, and now she’s in my past. That’s one present I’d like to unwrap in the future."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop"
"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."
"I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life."
"She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer."
"Lenny Bruce I'm going to be rich!I figured out how to get schlong-juice stains off of suede."
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."
"Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family."
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