Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.

I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

The American Public is who I'm interested in. Ultimately, if they think I'm good and they think I'm entertaining that's all that matters.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

You find out what type of man you are.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!