If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

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.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.