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"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies."
"You feel your strength in the experience of pain."
"I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!"
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
"Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead."
"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."
"We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves"
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."
"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality..."
"I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny."
"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."
"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."
"The future is uncertain but the end is always near."
"Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?"
"Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain."
"I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames."
"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you."
"All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave."