Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own.

For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Obama is a human wrecking ball single-handedly destroying our economy and bankrupting the nation.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.