No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach ….

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there..

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least..

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it..

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed..

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcan….

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass..