“We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.”

“When I create a fantasy world, I want it all.”

“All we truly know when we wake up in the morning is that we have the day in front of us to live.”

“It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember" (from Swimming Upstream).”

“How difficult it is to seeThe things we loveWith all this shadow round us,This brief time we're here.”

“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”

“Stone: Yes, we are everything, every experience we've ever had, and in some of us, a lot of it translates and makes patterns, poems. But, my God, we don't even began to touch upon it. There's an enormous amount, but we can touch such a little.Interviewer: That's true, just a very small portion.Stone: Very small. I think that's one of the things that our minds do; they sort out, somehow, often, and make patterns of significant things to us. And I think our minds do that for us in the dark, and then they offer them back in poems. I think your mind makes up your poem before you get it. You know, you receive the poem from your mind, you know you do. It takes a multitude of experiences, and all this language, and all this sound, and puts it together in these patterns that are significant to you and gives it back to you.”