Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

You know, how I deal with all my problems in a daily life, I'm tweeting shit.

Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

I think we should enjoy our families and everyone that we love right now, each day.

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.