Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.