Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

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