I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

A world without hope, but no despair

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.