To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.