Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

When it is late, everyone cares!

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game.

Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.