I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.