"She put snow on the mountain's / peak for me and took the Gallup Poll of my imagination. / She is both the V-Hold and popular fiction of my life. I write / her letters daily, which I'm then prompted to discard. She / engineered several corporate mergers until I couldn't resist / temptation."

“Race ain’t nothing but a number.”

“Enthusiasm is achieved chiefly by means of provocations. In these cases, something inside of us resonates vibrantly with something outside. / The form of the provocation—be it book, music, sporting event, conversation—matters insofar as it might help to us find these sources of resonance.”

“Many people say, “Who's my doppelganger?” when maybe / they should ask, “Whose doppelganger am I?”

“NPR/WFCR Interview - Tina Antolini interviews Carson Cistulli”

“I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.”

“Day 468—said the word ‘finger’ until it no longer made sense. Now, looking at my fingers I have no idea what they are, / except they’re wildly useful / for writing letters to my earliest ancestors”