The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts.

If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.

Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.