I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

What a difference having a friend makes.

Never judge a book by its price"This is the price an author pays to be known. :)

The needs of the times will teach you what to do.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day.

One must desire something to be alive.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

I do. That is character!

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.