Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

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

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.