“As long as there are young people, and old people, too, who can imagine realities beyond seeing and touching, and as long as there are poets, and artists, and musicians, there will be unicorns.”

“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words ― We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years ― The world being just what it is, moving and passing through, actually alright in the long view and nothing to complain about.”

“Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song.”

“Spend all your kisses.”

“I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.”

“I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.”

“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.”