Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. 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.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.