The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.