You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

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.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.