If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

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.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.