I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.