The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.