Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile

Never give up your dreams and stay focused on your passions.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.