The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.

Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration I don't think you can go wrong.

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.