People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day.

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it