There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.