I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner......

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.

Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.