It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.