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

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.