Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.

It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

I do not fear it: I have been there.