To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Loving a woman is always political.

I cannot get close to any you.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

she wanted because art

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

A child correct behind and not before.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.