The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.

I hope that death contains less than this.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

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