To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Life is stronger than death.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force