I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

Poetry is God's work.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).