my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.