Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

Today's dreams create tomorrow’s hope. So act today and hope for the best.

Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Pirates of Bollywood, or Bollywood of Pirates? - Tough to say.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining the young to fight for elemental kinds of justice.

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

I like songs that are simple.