“Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.”

“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”

“and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love failsand death is useless.”

“I'm only interested in poetry.”

“the tigers have found meand I do not care.”

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

“what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care.”