Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
In therapy, the therapist acts as a container for what we daren’t let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.
It is silence that most needs an answering – when I can no longer speak, hear me.
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I’m really a flight animal.
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to.
I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.