We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

Class is material consumed.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

The past is more than a memory.

Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.