One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.