Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.