By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

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

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.