It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

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

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

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

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.