The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

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.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.