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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Success is survival.

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to...

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

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