If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.