I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.