I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.