“I have memories that I'm not using very oftenThat I would be happy to give to someone who needed memories.”

“I had a nightmare about beingTrapped in an elevator with a self-made man--He was born with a silver bootstrap in his mouth;He pulled himself up by his spoons.But when he lived in the fraternity,Before he could roll his sleeves up and get anything done,He would pack his laundry into boxesAnd mail it off to his mother and his grandmother--They would wash and iron his clothes, And then mail them back to him.”

“It's partly cloudy and partly windy and partly cold.”

“The mother of the heating contractor does notHave the same problem as the mother of the poet.When the mother of the heating contractor talks about her sonIt's usually understood, from the beginning, that her son,The heating contractor, is not pretending to be a heating contractor.”

“People will continue to become excitedWhen the days grow longer in the springtimeIt's the prospect of watchingTelevision during extended daylight.”

“What do I want? What kind of question is that? I want what everybody wants. I want someone who has my back. I want someone's name to put in the space after "in an emergecy please call." I want someone who will drink the other half of the bottle of wine so I don't. And someone to make it worth sitting down at an actual table to eat. I want someone who's dying to get home after a long day because I'm going to be there.”

“I thought if I moved away, I could move away from all of it, but the memories were still with me. The fact that I was shy and awkward didn't change just because I changed locations.”