"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"

"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."

"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."

"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

"It is a subtle truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it."

"What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others."

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."