"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

"I'm a Buddhist, which is a religion that believes in reincarnation and that every living thing is sacred."

"Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!"

"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!"

"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness."