If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

When I was a boy I was my father.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.