If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child through the reading of every book imaginable. Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .