People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

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.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind