To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.