"Poetry is the record of individual insights into the secret soul of the individual and because all individuals are one in the eyes of their creator, into the soul of the world. The world has a soul."

"The CIA has been dealing drugs since the 1950s."

"We are in a time of great change, and we are all part of it. We are all witnesses to it. We are all participants in it."

"I'm a poet, for Chrissake. I'm not a politician."

"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"