being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

I knew it would be you

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.

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.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.