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

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

Sleep tight, ya morons!

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

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.