Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

There is no set moment in your life that will define you. Every moment is a chance to change your life for better or worse. Choose to change now.

Hang on! Don’t give up.

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

Every artists wants to be applauded

An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.