There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth 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.

See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.