Life is more important than art, that's what makes art important.

In Boston, when they shit on you, they hand you a towel - so that you can can wipe their ass.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is battle, love is a war; love is growing up.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral con…

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

'Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.'

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.