In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Guys like you make life easy for some women.

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

Each man has his own batch of poems.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.