nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

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.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.