I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

All is well that ends well.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.