Solitude Is Un-american.

Love Is Love, But Marriage Is An Investment.

You Must Have A Certain Amount Of Maturity To Be A Poet. Seldom Do Sixteen-year-olds Know Themselves Well Enough.

The Older We Get, The More Jewish We Become In My Family.

Never Joke With The Press. Irony Does Not Translate Into Newsprint.

Often I Find That Poems Predict What I'm Going To Do Later In My Own Writing, And Often I Find That Poems Predict My Life. So I Think Poetry Is The Most Intense Expression Of Feeling That We Have.