Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink