The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

Missing this interview? It's not the end of the world. It is the beginning.

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.

This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"