Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

God, let me remember all good losers.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.