Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.