Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.