"The war is language, language abused for Advertisement, language used like magic for power on the planet."

"The only thing that can save the world is the humor of life."

"Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms."

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."

"I'm a human being, and I'm a poet, and I'm a lover, and I'm a friend, and I'm a neighbor, and I'm a citizen, and I'm a creature of the earth."