It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

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.