A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

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

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

great books are the ones we need