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

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.