Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

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

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.