The older I get, the more I feel.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.