In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.

I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.