If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

the magnitude of our relationship with others depends on the lattitude of our actions...quote for today

Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?