Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.