Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

America is not the center of the universe.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.