Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.