Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.