Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

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.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.

These passive prejudices were not necessarily from a place of ugly, but they certainly weren’t from a place of respect.

Before the telescope and the microscope were invented the mankind was wearing blinkers.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Enter the story as late as you can.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.