If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.