I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.