I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.

Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever...

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed