Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.