You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.