Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

We survive our love because we go on loving.

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.