It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

You know I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week let alone a relationship.

Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy combination and arrangement.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to what they were doing why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

'Home Alone' was a movie not an alibi.

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.