It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

I'm always geeking out about something..

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Celebrities say the darnedest things..

Unless you go forward then you are going back..

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing..

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally..

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men..

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music..

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things..

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon..

Thou shalt not take anything on faith.

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was..

There's nothing I won't attempt..

I have so much respect for what's funny..

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away..