All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.