Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.