Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.