All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.