It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.