"I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven."

"I'm a great believer in the power of love, and the power of compassion, and the power of forgiveness."

"Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums!"

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

"I am a question, and I am an answer, and I am a problem, and I am a solution, and I am a cause, and I am an effect."