The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.