The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

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