I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

What writing does is to reveal.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!