Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.