Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

Believe and trust in God. He is forever faithful.

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

The best life is that which makes the best of life.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.