The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

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.

We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.