But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as whether I'm dead or not won't mean much to me when I'm dead.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.