I think there's a whole region of images and feelings inside us that rarely are given outlet in daily life. And when they do come out, they can take perverse forms. It's the dark side. Everyone, when he sees it, recognizes the same thing in himself. It's a recognition of forces that rarely see the light of day. The more civilized we get on the surface, the more the other forces make their plea.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I wan…

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

'What the War Taught Me: There are two kinds of people in the world--those who think there are two kinds of people, and those who believe that there is one kin…

Do you know what le vice Anglais - the English vice - really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty - whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to ad…