I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.