I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.