I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Fire is loud, full of rage and chaos and destruction.

By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!

Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.