“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.”

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

“Q: What would you say to Bin Laden and George Bush?
A: I have to look at them as human beings. What one person had done for the world, is terrible, but for my perspective … if it was morning I would say "good morning" and if it was afternoon I would say, "good afternoon"
Q:That's all?
A: That's all. It is not my place to judge them.
Q: Thank you very much, Maharaji.”

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

“It's good to be back filming. I just put on my glasses and then I became Harry again.”

“I went back to work and wrote a poem for this person. While I was writing it I was realizing that if I wanted to I could use the telephone instead of writing the poem, and so Personism was born. It's a very exciting movement which will undoubtedly have lots of adherents. It puts the poem squarely between the poet and the person, Lucky Pierre style, and the poem is correspondingly gratified. The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages.”

“Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.”

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

“That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.”