I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?