I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

There is light somewhere.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

one more creature dizzy with love