Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

Instagram: People love me no matter what.Facebook: People used to love me.YouTube: People will always love me.Google+: Someday, people will, I know.Twitter: I don't care, guys.

Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

We can't afford to be killing one another.