The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I opened my eyes and saw the dark in all its original color.

Find out what you do best, and then don’t do it.

If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show him that solid wall of books, and say to him: ’the secret is in there somewhere, and even if you never find out what it is, you will still have come closer.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe.

To have guilt you’ve got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don’t feel the guilt you ought to have. And that’s what The Firebombing is about.

If you write well, you don’t have to dress funny.

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

He can’t imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.