Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

The future is always beginning now.

women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.