Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

A poem is a naked person.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.