We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

And I say to my heart: rave on.