I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.