Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.
Character is simply habit long continued.
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
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.
