The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.