Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I write poems to find out why I write them

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.