All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.