It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

People tend to take stories literally these days.

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.