I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

one transcendent kissthat later makes lovers takesoft breaths, holding hands

My wife and I just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. I'm Catholic so there's no real possibility of divorce. I'm Irish - so there is the possibility of murder.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Just be yourself, be you and that's how I think you're going to feel the most confident.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.