What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

The present order is the disorder of the future.

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

I've been thinking about forever

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.

I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.