My ambition is handicapped by laziness

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.