by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.