Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.