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.

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

Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.

...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

Everybody has the same amount of time during the day. You can either spend your time or invest your time.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

You are awareness disguised as a human being.