Medication without explanation is obscene.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.