It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.