Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!