I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

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

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.