Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.