If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

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

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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

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.