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

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

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.

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.