if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready..

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives..

I am this fiery snail crawling home..

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't f….

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There….

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!.

The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or y….

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with mysel….

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism..

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning..

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion..

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery..

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, s….

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb..

There's nothing unusual about love..

People empty me. I have to get away to refill..

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that ….

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting h….

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard..

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult..

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them..