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.

My country tears of thee.

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

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

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

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.