1. ”An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”
2. “I tell the woman that the face is my experience and the hands are my soul - anything to get those panties down.”
3. “It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse....no, it's the contining series of small tragedies....not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.”
4. "Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing."
5. ”Somebody at one of these places asked me: What do you do? Howdo you write, create? You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.”
6. "The illusion is that you are simply reading this poem.The reality is that this is more than a poem."
7. ”The world is full of shipping clerks who have read the Harvard Classics.”
8. “You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
