For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe.

Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.