For Darkness Restores What Light Cannot Repair.

I Don't Have Principles. I Have Nerves.

Poetry Is Rather An Approach To Things, To Life, Than It Is Typographical Production.

I Didn't Want To Be Either The Cre`me De La Cre`me Or A Martyr. I'd Rather Be A Novelty, Especially In A Democracy That Doesn't Understand The Language I Write In.

My Poems Getting Published In Russia Doesn't Make Me Feel In Any Fashion, To Tell You The Truth. I'm Not Trying To Be Coy, But It Doesn't Tickle My Ego.

Life—the Way It Really Is—is A Battle Not Between Good And Bad, But Between Bad And Worse