I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

When I want to party, I play Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love." That's always been the song that my friends and I get ready to; or before I go on a first date, I play it to feel sexy.

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.