I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
