We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.