What I discovered was is that it’s rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you’re looking for.
It’s only when you’re forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
I have ne’er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e’en when the matter concern’d my own future most profoundly.
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
I’m very dependant. I fall apart regularly.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
I was surprised by my daughter’s generation and how they were rebelling against the ’70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
We all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
I’ve become more conservative about sex as I’ve gotten older.
Blaming women is always in fashion.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
I think I’ve become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don’t think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.