Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

What we want is never simple.

Grief is a circular staircase.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

Spring is the shortest season.

To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end, when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach, and the weather day after dayis flawless, and the forecastis hurricane.

I don't believe in magic.'The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will when you see her.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

We are running out of time

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.

May an elephant caress you with his toes

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.