Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.