"My own first principle of life: to be honest, to be simple, to be myself, to be an American, a Jew, a poet, a homosexual, a mystic, a Buddhist, a father, a son, a lover, a friend, a neighbor, a citize…"

"I want to be a poet, not a rich man."

"Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!"

"No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the Beings in the dream, trapped in its disappearance."

"None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway."