Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
I don’t consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I’m home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy. I move like a monkey. I’ve wet myself, I’ve come in my pants writing.
I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
Grief isn’t all tears.
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection.
Most women writers don’t interest me because they’re hung up with being a woman, they’re hung up with being Jewish, they’re hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.
There’s nothing cool about being self-destructive.
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
Just because I’ve extricated myself from religion doesn’t mean I’m not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It’s a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.
For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.
I didn’t waste my time on things I didn’t love.
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock ‘n’ roll belongs to the people.
Blessedness is within us all.
I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.
Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
I’ve embraced rock ‘n’ roll because it encompasses all the things I’m interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism – all of these things can be found in rock ‘n’ roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.