Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.

An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'