Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

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

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.