In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

We are what God has made us.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.

Often seems to me that people believe they can become only what they already are, when in fact they are what they've chosen to be, by deliberate decision as well as lack of it

I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.