“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”

“Sex is squalid, uncomfortable, and messy. (18 April 2005)”

“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works”

“You can't blame me sure the killer was my son
but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun
It's the killing on this tv screen
you can't blame me it's those images he's seen.
Well you can't blame me says the media man
Well I wasn't the one who came up with the plan
And I just point my camera at what the people want to see
Man it's a two way mirror and you can't blame me.”

“In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

“There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth”

“People are not to be blamed for their doubts, but that they make no effort to arrive at the truth.”

“You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on."

Homer Simpson”

“That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”