Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.