The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

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

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

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.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

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.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.