You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.