we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

I was not a member of the SS.

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.