The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.