Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.

WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS.....

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

Spin-offs were never really my thing.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.