We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads.

Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!