18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Drink to me.