I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.