To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

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.

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

A search can either damage or undamaged the soul

A trickle of blood slid down his arm.He felt nothing. He only saw it.Because nothing hurt like missing her.He suspected nothing ever would

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

Past and to come seems best things present worst.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.