We use such big words to move nowhere.

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

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

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.

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.