Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

We should wear whatever we think looks nice and wear it with confidence. That will put you in a good mood and I think it will lead to an abundant society

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.