Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.
If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it's difficult and never forget the place where you cam...
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.