“Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.”

“Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.”

“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

“You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn’t may be”

“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”

“It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.”

“You have come to a place which doesn't tolerate anything but the best. You have come to a place where you can be heard. You have come to a place where you can grow.”

“Originality is going back to the place where you were what you were—and finding an empty chair. Would you gladly sit on it? No, thank you. It is empty for a reason. That’s where my ass was. Not where my head is now.”

“Never say of anybody under you: he is no good. It is you who are no good, for you cannot find a place where he will be of use.”