Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.