In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.

You would be surprise with how much you could achieve in life, if you are willing to try, fail, learn from your failure, and try again and again until you succeed.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.