It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

To hell with facts! We need stories.

I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.