Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.