I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

I am a poem. There is no way out.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.