I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I write what's given me to write.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted.

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..

If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.

Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.