What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.

I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!

Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.