The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Only the boring get bored

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.