If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.