Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.
I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.
I have the same problems that everybody else does.
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.
I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
