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

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

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.

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

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

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