Jim Harrison

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.