“Total consistency is an appalling virtue.”

“To be in Lyonesse, that is the questionTo justify the otters, is the questionThe dropping of the meadows, is the questionI do not know the answer to the questionThere was a time when moorhens in the westThere was a time when daylight on the topThere was a time when God was not a questionThere was a time when poets Then I came”

“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the economy or even their language, the body or its sensorium, but I could not imagine this, could not even imagine imagining it. And yet when I imagined the total victory of those other things over poetry, when I imagined, with a sinking feeling, a world without even the terrible excuses for poems that kept faith with the virtual possibilities of the medium, without the sort of absurd ritual I'd participated in that evening then I intuited an inestimable loss, a loss not of artworks but of art, and therefore infinite, the total triumph of the actual, and I realized that, in such a world, I would swallow a bottle of white pills.”

“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”

“You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.”

“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”

“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living".”