"We're in a situation where we have to create our own culture, because we're not getting it from the mainstream."

"I don't think there's any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting…"

"I'm a realist, but I'm not a cynic."

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

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