Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.