I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.