I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

I'm only interested in poetry.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.