In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

This is just the way life is – sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating – and we just have to deal with it. That’swhat freedom is.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.

Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.