But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).

But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.