My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.