It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.