While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. Especially with the stuff they wrote about Jessica and I - it's obviously not true.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year Dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things.

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.