Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.