The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.