What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

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

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.