Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.