Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.

Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've always admired music that can evoke a cinematic experience.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.