Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

If you want to create, you'll create.