"The more I read the more I know it now, heavier each day, that I need to write. I think of poetry and how I see it as just a raw block of stone ready to be shaped, that way words are never a horrible limit to me, just tools to shape. I just get the images from the upstairs vault … and fling ‘em around like bricks, sometimes clean and smooth and make it another size or shape so the rest make sense … or no sense at all."
Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries