And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.