A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

Forcing an answer only guarantees that no answer will come out." - Six

He who analyses blitz is stupid.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.