The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.