I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools. |
It's not as if he didn't understand that much of his behavior was driven by desperation and self-hate, ... He wasn't shallow or unreflective, quite the contrary. It was simply the way he was. He was born wild, born troubled. He wasn't designed for the long haul; not everyone is. |
The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the point of bluntness, though not at all unfriendly, ... The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating. Affectation is quickly and viscerally registered. |