Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

Jazz was my first love.

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.