There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

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.

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

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

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.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

There's no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that's going to make or break the commercial, in his opinion. We don't have to do that, so I don't miss it at all, really.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

I don't want anything bad to happen to me.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

This is Donald Trump. He wants to respond. You know how he is.

Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.