Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

I like to read because it kills me.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

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