I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.