Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.