I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.