Death is a slave's freedom.

War is not a jobs program.

I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.