Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

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

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.