I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

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

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I seek the substantial in life.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.