I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success.

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

Change itself is not a choice, but you can choose to be willing to change and you can choose to will the changes that you want. Willing Change

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

TheFerrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and for mostpeople it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.