Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.