School should be eleven months of the year.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.