Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Fried Oreos. What were we talking about before? That's pregnancy-brain for ya! Ha ha ha ha!

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.