from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.from the prose poem INNOCENCE

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.