Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

Perfection isn't something that we can see and it isn't something that we can touch, but it exists here on Earth.It resides in each and everyone of us within our hearts.It's called LOVE!

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.