Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

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

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near