One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.