Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.