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

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

there's no defense except all the errors made

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

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.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.