If you want to create, you'll create.

Angels, we have grown apart.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.