I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.