Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.