We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say?

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.