To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.