It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation.

Anguish is the universal language.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.