Writing is a delicious agony.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

There is no one that cannot make an impact in this world.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either