Science like art religion commerce warfare and even sleep is based on presuppositions.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I feel there's a power in theatre but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain the stimulator starts. It's tingling like when your foot falls asleep you know?

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

When children are very young you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that not gloss over them.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

When I was younger I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable to point at frauds to take sides start arguments shape the world and stop it going to sleep.

Cats have it all - admiration an endless sleep and company only when they want it.