I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

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'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age