Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

Talent was not rare

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Are there no prisons?

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.