"I'm a Buddhist. I'm a Jew. I'm a Communist. I'm a homosexual. I'm an old man. I'm a young man. I'm a woman. I'm a child. I'm a black man. I'm a white man. I'm an American. I'm a Russian. I'm a Chinese…"

"If you don't have a story, you're not a human being. You're just a collection of cells."

"The best poems are not written, they're ejaculated."

"Though while it comes it is a lion that eats the soul—and the lamb, the soul, in us, alas, offering itself in sacrifice to change's fierce hunger—hair and teeth—and the roar of bonepain, skull bare, b…"

"The only way to find out what you're capable of is to go beyond what you think you're capable of."