Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.