Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

We make the path by walking.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.