When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.

Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...

At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use ...

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.