I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.