Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

I tell, therefore you are.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.