I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.