We eat junk because it's cheap and it lights up the pleasure centers of our brain. And we do drugs because it's an effective way to feel good or escape something.

The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.