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.

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns