The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.
I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
[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.