I always wear the same thing onstage.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand up the dress of somebody who goes around calling herself something like Ms.? It's all so stupid.