“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”

“We talk about our assholes. We talk about our cocks. We talk about who we fucked last night, or who we’re gonna fuck tomorrow…Everyone tells one’s friends about that, right? So the question is, what happens when you make a distinction between what you tell your friends and what you tell your muse? The trick is to break down that distinction, to approach your muse as frankly as you would talk to yourself, or to your friends. It’s the ability to commit to writing, to write the same way you are.”

“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. ”

“I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.”

“I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?”

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ”