An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Do not ignore your best friend because some other friend hurt you.

I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but hate covers that causes evil deeds.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.