Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I have had a lot of success with failure