Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?
People say I'm shrill and strident.
We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.
The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
All good poems are victories over something.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
If you can't do it, give up!
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
A human being is only breath and shadow.
