You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.