God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.