I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

One does not become a guru by accident.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong, And that was there the whole time all along.

Ultimate Truth- "You are not born with success, but you've born to success

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.