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.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

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

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

What does not change is the will to change

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.