Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

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

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

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.