I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

The horse does not eat cucumber salad

I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

You cannot stop the unstoppable

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.