You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Love is better than Fame.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

I believe that prosperity has a purpose.

The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?