I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
Cherish your wilderness.
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.
I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in
I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.