There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.