My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time.

Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we’re responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

I am king of the world!

Be careful what you're good at doing, because you'll probably do a lot of it.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.