Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

There is light somewhere.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.