I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

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.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.