I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else