I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live

It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.