i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

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.

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've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.