We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.

The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.