There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

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

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

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

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.

When I was a boy I was my father.

My country tears of thee.