Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

People never believe you.