Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

Master your strengths. Outsource your weaknesses.

I just want to keep people entertained.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

Meditate upon the guru as the glow of your awareness.