Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!

Love is a forest fire ignited by a firefly

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity

all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

I'm not here to discuss the past. I'm here to be positive...

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?