Real Quotes

There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

Some things are just really difficult to do. That’s what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

I’ve never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it’s a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn’t work that way with heroin.

Love makes everything complicated, and emotions always go wild in the beginning. But when it’s real, you should hold on tight.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.

You have to hurt before you heal: that’s how you know the recovery is real.

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

You can put truth in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.