“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”

“The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene”

“You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.”

“Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]”

“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.”

“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.”

“The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years”