The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

There is no country but the heart.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.