And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

I don't think I do have a soul.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.