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"I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going."

"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."

"It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself."

"The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation."
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"I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere."


"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."


"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."


"Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me."


"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
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