When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard
Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.
The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.
Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [. . . ] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
Revision is a good impulse to have.