I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.