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

"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'm a human being, but I'm not a robot."

"fortunately all governments will fall the only ones which won't fall are the good ones and the good ones don't yet exist"

"I'm not a political poet. I'm a human poet."