So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.

A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'