There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

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 more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast.

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.