Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.