"who broke their backs lifting Moloch into heaven!"

"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…"

"The only way to be truly alive is to embrace your own mortality."

"I'm a student, but I'm not a pupil."

"I'm a poet, but I'm not a madman."