If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.