"I want to be a dream, and I want to be a nightmare."

"I'm a lover, not a fighter. I'm a writer, not a reader. I'm a dreamer, not a doer. I'm a thinker, not a speaker. I'm a feeler, not a toucher. I'm a liver, not a dier. I'm a be-er, not a not-be-er. I'm…"

"I want to work in a place where I'm not afraid to be myself. I want to work in a place where I'm not afraid to be human. I want to work in a place where I'm not afraid to be alive."

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks disappearing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean for…"

"I was a young brakeman and I was going to save the world with poetry."