"I'm a homosexual, which means I love men. And I'm a poet, which means I love words."

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

"I'm a great believer in the power of love, and the power of compassion, and the power of forgiveness."

"I didn't foresee what you felt—what more hideous gape of bad mouth came first—to you—and were you prepared? To go where? In that Dark—that—in that God? a radiance? A Lord in the Void? Like an eye in t…"

"I am a spiritual person, and I believe in God, and I believe in the universe, and I believe in humanity."