Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I'm calling the police, " she said, showing him the phone in her hand.He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. "You don't need the police."No, of course she didn't How silly.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.