I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.