“The poet is stepping out of the airplane. ”
“Mister, that boy couldn’t hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.”
“I jumped out of a goddamn airplane with Matt. Because of Matt. For Matt.”
“That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.”
“Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there’s no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground.”
“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”