Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

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

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

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 was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.