Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

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.