God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.