Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

In the end, there is no end.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Now of course in hindsight, such a wonderful thing, though never around when you actually need it, I know that I always loved her deeply.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

[I'm] very fortunate and blessed person who still has a lot of living to do.

There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.