Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies... yet the auto has replaceable parts.

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.