“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”

“if you get married they think you'refinishedand if you are without a woman they think you'reincomplete.”

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”

“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready. ”

“Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that.We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…”

“How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”